HELEN GARDNEL Reader in Renaissance English Literature, Oxford. Editor of The Divine Poems of John Donne ( Oxford, 1952) and
The Metaphysical Poets
( London, 1957); author of The Art of T. S. Eliot ( London, 1949) and The
Business of Criticism ( Oxford, 1959).

CLEANTH BROOKS. Professor of English at Yale University. Author of The Well
Wrought Urn ( New York, 1947); (with R. P. Warren) Understanding Poetry
( New York, 1938); Modern Poetry and the Tradition ( Chapel Hill, 1939); and (with W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.) Literary Criticism: A Short History ( New York, 1957).

J. E. V. CROFTS. Formerly Professor of English, Bristol University.

WILLIAM EMPSON. Poet, and Professor of English at Sheffield University. Author
of Seven Types of Ambiguity ( London, 1930); Some Versions of Pastoral ( London, 1935); The Structure of Complex Words ( London, 1951); and Milton's God
( London, 1961).

SIR
HERBERT GRIERSON ( 1866- 1960). Professor of English, Aberdeen University 1894- 1915; Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh University 1915-35. Editor of Donne Poems ( London, 1912) and of Metaphysical
Poetry, Donne to Butler ( Oxford, 1921); author of The First Half of the Seventeenth Century ( London, 1906), Cross Currents in English Literature of the
XVIIth Century ( London, 1906), and numerous other works.

C. S. LEWIS. Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature, Cambridge.
Author of The Allegory of Love ( Oxford, 1936), A Preface to Paradise Lost
( Oxford, 1942), English Literature in the Sixteenth Century ( Oxford, 1954), Studies in Words ( Cambridge, 1959), and An Experiment in Criticism ( Cambridge, 1961).

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